Emails show local officials received conflicting signals from state leaders and meatpacking companies about how much information to release about outbreaks in plants.

Iowa — The Iowa Department of Public Health is releasing new information on confirmed outbreaks of COVID-19 at five Iowa workplaces, including one where more than half of employees tested pos…

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has identified COVID-19 outbreaks at nine industrial facilities in Vernon, including four meatpacking plants.

This report indicates that coronavirus disease 2019 cases among workers in 115 meat or poultry processing facilities were reported by 19 states.

Trump's requirement that meatpacking plants stay open during the coronavirus pandemic raises questions about America's massive meat exports, especially to China.

The new rule also allows plants to run their processing lines as fast as they like.

The industry practice of making hundreds of workers stand close together at a production line—with sharp knives and a fast line speed—endangers not only their safety, but also food safety and public...

Over the past 25 years, the giant meatpacking company has taken a lead in pushing for changes in workers’ comp in state after state — often to the detriment of workers.

Workers interviewed by the Guardian describe pattern of alleged negligence at plants run by some of America’s largest food manufacturers